ON a recent weekday evening, scores of work-weary people waited to check out materials at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library while, a few yards away, two self-service checkout machines stood idle.
Scores of works have attempted to bring insight to the magical history of Ferrari, many fastidiously researched and engagingly told.
On the plus side, scores of works of art out of sight for decades are now visible.
He "banished" the brother, argues the sister's side of the family, because he concluded that the brother had stolen scores of works and millions of dollars.
Then come scores of works by or about Roosevelt's intimates, rivals, military commanders and, by no means least, his wife.
Solomon R. Guggenheim, her patron, caught the fever, and between 1929 and his death in 1949, he acquired scores of works by the artist.
Most of the scores of works now scattered across the woods, clearings and meadows are only visible when you come upon them following the various "art-nature" trails.
But there were also scores of works by artists like Goya, Bassano and Guercino that went unsold without so much as a bid.
For every verismo opera that has endured, like Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana," there were scores of works that enjoyed success only to fall into oblivion.
